How to format your references using the Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Smaglik P (2001) Biologists officially welcome plan. Nature 412:665

A journal article with 2 authors

Zahn LM, Travis J (2015) Mutation and Human Disease. Hunting Mutations, Targeting Disease. Introduction. Science 349:1470–1471

A journal article with 3 authors

Faller M, Niederweis M, Schulz GE (2004) The structure of a mycobacterial outer-membrane channel. Science 303:1189–1192

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brooks BA, Foster J, Sandwell D, et al (2008) Magmatically triggered slow slip at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. Science 321:1177

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Sturges RH Jr (2014) Practical Field Robotics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Thalheim B, Schewe K-D, Prinz A, Buchberger B (eds) (2015) Correct Software in Web Applications and Web Services. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Węgliński T, Fabijańska A (2014) Enhancement of Low-Dose CT Brain Scans Using Graph-Based Anisotropic Interpolation. In: S. Choras R (ed) Image Processing and Communications Challenges 5. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, pp 29–36

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) This Ghostly Exoplanet Is A Volcanic Hell In Deep Space. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ghostly-exoplanet-volcanic-hell-deep-space/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2006) National Airspace System Modernization: Observations on Potential Funding Options for FAA and the Next Generation Airspace System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tse J (2009) An explication of the Hilbert basis theorem and its relation to school mathematics. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Saslow L (2007) Superintendent Takes On Ailing Roosevelt. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2001; Zahn and Travis 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Zahn and Travis 2015)
Three or more authors: (Brooks et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
Abbreviation	Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult.
ISSN (print)	0167-6857
ISSN (online)	1573-5044
Scope	Horticulture